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Moderating Urbanization and Managing Growth: How Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos?

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  • Ranjith Dayaratne

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This paper examines urbanization trends, the growth of Colombo and its present state of development. It looks at the approaches to the planned interventions in the city and demonstrates how a uni-directional urban development has had a detrimental impact upon healthy growth and quality of life in a city where half of the population still live in slums and shanties. It shows that the city has been promoting high impact 'vertical growth' and argues that in the absence of healthy 'lateral growth', Colombo is unlikely to achieve its vision of creating a gracious city.

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  • Ranjith Dayaratne, 2010. "Moderating Urbanization and Managing Growth: How Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-064, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Sunil Chandrasiri, 1999. "Colombo Chokes on the Car: The Case for Controlling Automotive Air Pollution," EEPSEA Policy Brief pb1999061, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), revised Jun 1999.
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    2. David Mayer-Foulkes, 2011. "Urbanization as a Fundamental Cause of Development," Working papers DTE 501, CIDE, División de Economía.

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